Pioneer DVR-108 locks pc up

I got the Pioneer DVR-108 dvd write, when I use nero to make a image of a dvd, part way through it locks the pc up so I have to press reset to restart the pc, I have got firmware 1.06 hacked, which according to several people works great.
I tried alcohol102% and get the same result.
Please advise

Hi surfrat, First couple of things I would do: Uninstall Nero completely and reboot. Then go into your device manager and remove your burner drive. Then reboot again and let Windows reinstall the drive probperly. Once the drive is installed reboot again and see if it reads discs ok. If that goes OK, reinstall Nero and then see if your problem is gone.
Also check your IDE channels are both set to DMA not PIO.
Jerry
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You might try updating the firmware to 1.14. I also have the 108 and have updated my firmware. You can download 1.14 at:

drivers/softpedia.com/public/drivers/10-3257.shtml

Having said that, you might also benefit from my experience. Friends and I both used Nero until we got our hands on Roxio Easy Media Creator 7. We had all used (and still do) DVD Decrypter to rip then used Nero to burn. After getting hold of Roxio 7 we all removed Nero from our hard drives, simply because Roxio offers so many options and is so easy to use.

After Decrypting a movie we then burn the "main movie only" to DVD-R's using our DVR-108's. If the movie is still to big to burn on a single DVD-R, Roxio will shrink the movie to fit on a single DVD-R.

I haven't seen any good software from Roxio in the last 3 tries. Nero is still a better program. Roxio software conflicts with most dvd backup programs. As long as it works for you and your friends keep using it. As to it being easier to use than Nero, I doubt it very much. I would guess that 75% to 80% of the members on here use Nero over Roxio.

Jerry747...my guess for Nero usage would be more like 95 to 99%. It also appears that eric545 is quite sold on Roxio, as his other posts try to work in the virtues of that package even when it isn't relevant to the thread.

Nero is ok, I tried loading firmware 1.14 but could not get the pc to boot at all, I kept getting blue screening during bootup, I restored previous firmware and the pc boots fine how ever I cannot use the drive for ripping as it still locks up the pc, my other dvd rom drive works great except its only a 4X dvd drive.
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For right now, I would suggest trying the swap file at 4000 MB min and max on both drives or partitions. Make sure that the values are "Set" before leaving the utility. This amount of VM is a lot more than you need for ripping, but not encoding.

I would also make sure that my drives were defragged. This has been a reason for drives stalling during ripping.

Once you have done these, launch the Performance utility (Ctrl-Alt-Del >> Task Manager >> Performance Tab). This will give you a real-time CPU usage and physical memory reading. Observe what happens prior to stalling...if it happens again. Does CPU and memory usage go up/down?

I've not come across this setup before. Can you tell me if all 4 partitions show up in the swap file utility?

From my own preference, if I were going to partition a drive, I would put my OS and other program files on the same partition. I would then put all the data they created or that was related to them on another partition. (I don't partition because this has created problems when making a backup clone of my drive.)

I would also want my page file/swap file on the partition where the work was actually being done. For me this would usually be the OS and program file partition. This is mainly for performance reasons. The HDD read/write head makes less movement with this configuration, and ultimately works faster.

I have only setup the page file partition for the swap file, the other drives are not setup for page file at all, this funny enough was a suggestion for performance by Microsoft them selves. A big reason for putting the swap file on its own partition is to prevent fragmentation and for performance, so they say.
The reason I have the OS on its own partition is for backup purposes, that way I only need to backup my main partition and not the OS partition considering if I had a system fail, I would have to reinstall the OS anyway, therefor saving me the time of having to backup something I have to reinstall anyway.

all partitions show up under system utility, I assume by utility you mean where you setup the swap file (virtual memory tab)
by clicking on each drive, only the page file partition displays "system managed" all the others show as "no paging file"

About the page file. I can see the merits of having it isolated when it is system managed. This would reduce fragmentation, as XP tends to lay down page/swap files all over the place. When it is user-set, this creates a defined space on the HDD where page file swapping takes place. Nothing else goes on in this space except file swapping.